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Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.553ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2014: 0.553SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

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Special Issue on Physical Activity and Serious Mental Illness

Mental Health and Physical Activity (MENPA) is an international forum for scholarly reports on any aspect of relevance to advancing our understanding of the relationship between mental health and physical activity. Individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI; defined for this issue as major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), borderline personality disorder and eating disorders) are at particularly elevated risk of premature mortality and morbidity due to lifestyle factors. There is a clear clinical case that physical activity promotion should be integrated within mental health services given the high prevalence of inactivity in the SMI population. Irrespective of physical health outcomes, there is some evidence that physical activity also improves psychological health and social well-being although the SMI population has been less extensively examined than other clinical populations (e.g., mild-moderate depression, anxiety). This is also reflected in the majority of research published in MENPA thus far. Accordingly, the purpose of this special issue is to solicit new papers that present empirical data concerning physical activity and serious mental illness. Intervention studies are particularly welcome as are reports describing intervention development or how physical activity is integrated into mental health services. Both quantitative (e.g., cross-sectional; prospective) and qualitative studies are of interest. Theoretical and/or methodological contributions will also be considered.